Performance Benchmarking Ruby: Increasing App Speed Through Benchmarking

Luke Cowell will be joining us to give a presentation about his experience in benchmarking Ruby. His talk focuses on and answers these questions:

What is benchmarking? When should we benchmark? How do we benchmark? In the process, he will cover:

The Benchmark Class Finding the right number of iterations Why and how to make sure your app has been properly warmed up for benchmarking Improving performance using benchmarking Sample benchmarking and optimization demonstration Benchmarking against different Ruby implementations Reading memprof output